How Siaka Stevens is Turning a Former Slave Port into Africa's Next Great City | Ep. 15

What does it take to build a city on an island that most of the world has never heard of? Not a development project. Not a concept. An actual city.Siaka Stevens has spent the last decade trying to answer that question. As the founder of the Sherbro Island City Project, he's navigating government negotiations, diaspora investment, sustainability planning, and a partnership with actor Idris Elba, all in service of a vision he describes as governance-first and community-anchored.In this conversation, Siaka talks about the moment he found Sherbro Island on a blacked-out energy map, the working-class East London upbringing that shaped his entrepreneurial instincts, and why he believes the diaspora shouldn't just cheer for Africa's development from the sidelines. They should own a piece of it.Listen in and let it challenge how you think about Africa's future.